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no_hypocrisy

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6. Also it's discriminatory against women's suffrage.
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 08:06 AM
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With only a few known exceptions that I know of, men don't change their surnames when they marry.

It's unconstitutional as a violation of the 19th Amendment. (The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, prohibits denying the right to vote based on sex, effectively granting women suffrage after decades of activism, though racial barriers to voting for women of color persisted until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It states, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".)

Constitution trumps federal statute.

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